Come off it, mate, (a) freedom of speech and all that, and (b) who’s criticising Galloway/Respect/SWP for being ‘too’ left-wing or for being positive about Islam? HP’s cynicism about Chavez might (an I mean, might) be a little premature, but I can’t see any reason for HP not to jump on the Galloway/Respect/SWP loudhailer, given their view that he’s a dangerous and devious demagogue, a poisonous presence, and that not a peep comes out of it regarding forward-looking, practical left-wing policies. Pehaps when Galloway proposes an economic or social policy that isn’t predicated upon the evil of BlairBush, all sides can have a proper debate on it.

Shorter B4L: HP shouldn’t be shut down by the government (point a); in any case, they’re *right* and *justified* because Galloway is EVIL!!!1! (point b). So stop being so nasty (”come off it, mate”).

I don’t think I either suggested (a) or expressed any particular opinion on (b) - Galloway’s a twat anyway.

Merely pointing out the irony in a blogger from HP observing the vendetta tendancy in others but not in themselves despite being amongst the foremost practitioners of ‘infinite monkey blogging’ - if you repeat it often enough you’ll eventually bore your opponents into submission - in the UK.